Police Knew About Sandy Hook Shooter’s Plot Four Years Before Massacre

Four years before Adam Lanza committed the Sandy Hook massacre, he openly talked about killing students at the school, according to newly released FBI documents.

The FBI files show that following the 2012 massacre, in which Lanza killed 20 children and six adults in the school after first killing his mother in her home, a witness whose name was redacted said Lanza had considered the crime for years.

The witness reported that in 2008, Lanza claimed he had access to assault weapons and a plan to use.

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“Lanza allegedly (said) that he planned to kill his mother and children at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Connecticut,” the FBI document said, according to the New York Post.

The witness said the conversation took place sometime between Dec. 6 and Dec. 24, 2008. The massacre happened on Dec. 14, 2012.

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The witness had told the Newtown Police Department about the conversation, but claimed he was turned away.

Newtown police responded that “Lanza’s mother owned the guns and that there was nothing N.P.D. could do about it,” according to the FBI’s records.

The witness told the FBI he felt “bad about not doing more to try and prevent” the massacre.

But that witness is not the only evidence that Lanza was planning something deadly.

FBI documents include comments from a woman who had communicated with Lanza online for over two years and said he obsessed with mass shootings and other crimes, like pedophilia.

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“Lanza was working on a list, or spreadsheet, meticulously documenting the details of hundreds of spree killings and mass murders,” FBI agents wrote that she told them. She even told the FBI that Lanza “may have believed he was ‘saving’ children from the ‘harmful influences’ of adults.”

The woman, who said she communicated with Mr. Lanza about once a month until the beginning of December 2012, called Lanza “the weirdest person online,” The New York Times reported.

Though the woman admitted she thought Lanza was “depressed” and had a cynical and negative outlook, she claimed she didn’t think he was capable of violence.

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